Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSONThe world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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A good life is a main argument.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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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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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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