He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSONConfound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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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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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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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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A good king is a public servant.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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