Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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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A good life is a main argument.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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