A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSONFortune, that favors fools.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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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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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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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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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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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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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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