Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSONTo the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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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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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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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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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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