To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSONConfound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Man and wife make one fool.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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A good king is a public servant.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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