All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSONNo 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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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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A good king is a public servant.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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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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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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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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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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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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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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