I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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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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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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A good king is a public servant.
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