He was not of an age, but for all time!
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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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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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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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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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.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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