That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSONOpinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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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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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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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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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Aristotle 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.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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