Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSONFolly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSONSweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Prevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSONPrevent your day at morning.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSONA good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSONHonor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
BEN JONSONPrinces that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSONTrue gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSONLove that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSONA good life is a main argument.
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