Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
BEN JONSONI glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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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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How near to good is what is fair!
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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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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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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