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.
BEN JONSONTell troth and shame the devil.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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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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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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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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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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