Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSONAnd where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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How near to good is what is fair!
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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