All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSONA good king is a public servant.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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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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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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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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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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