The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSONConfound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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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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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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