Ben Jonson
Poet
1572-06-11 – 1637-08-06
Ben Jonson was an English playwright, poet, and literary critic, a major figure of Jacobean drama and contemporary of Shakespeare.
Quotes by Ben Jonson
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He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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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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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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This is the very womb and bed of enormity.
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I glory More in the cunning purchase of my wealth Than in the glad possession.
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There be some men are born only to suck out the poison of books.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee.
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Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
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Hood an ass with reverend purple, So you can hide his two ambitious ears, And he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and 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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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Who falls for love of God shall rise a star.
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Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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