Ben Jonson quotes

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. (Ben Jonson)
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Language shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Talking is the disease of age.
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Art has an enemy called ignorance.
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They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
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I now think Love is rather deaf than blind, For else it could not be That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me And cast my love behind.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means. (Ben Jonson)
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink.
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As he brews, so shall he drink.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand.'
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroke the air And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant and of all tame, a flatterer.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
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Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander makes it true. (Ben Jonson)
Hang sorrow, carell kill a cat.
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Reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.
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The world knows only two, - that's Rome and I.
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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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