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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

Ben Jonson

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSON

Bird Kings Poet
The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSON

Children Dread Fire
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSON

Death Good Man Men
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
BEN JONSON

Ears Speak Understanding
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSON

Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
BEN JONSON

Food Romantic Wine
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSON

Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON

Discourse Harsh Speech
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

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