I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
BEN JONSONYour highest female grace is silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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