All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSONAristotle 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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A good king is a public servant.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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