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.
BEN JONSONWho casts to write a living line, must sweat.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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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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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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