Our whole life is like a play.
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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Prevent your day at morning.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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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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