Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSONFolly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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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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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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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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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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