Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSONI remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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A good life is a main argument.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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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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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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