All concord’s born of contraries.
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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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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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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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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