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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style (Ben Jonson Quotes)
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money (Ben Jonson Quotes)
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times (Ben Jonson Quotes)
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! (Ben Jonson Quotes)
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end (Ben Jonson Quotes)
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you (Ben Jonson Quotes)
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike (Ben Jonson Quotes)
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 (Ben Jonson Quotes)
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do (Ben Jonson Quotes)
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them (Ben Jonson Quotes)
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician (Ben Jonson Quotes)
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use (Ben Jonson Quotes)
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way (Ben Jonson Quotes)
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 (Ben Jonson Quotes)
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news (Ben Jonson Quotes)
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen (Ben Jonson Quotes)
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity (Ben Jonson Quotes)
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too (Ben Jonson Quotes)
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak (Ben Jonson Quotes)
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death (Ben Jonson Quotes)
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us (Ben Jonson Quotes)
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not (Ben Jonson Quotes)
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 (Ben Jonson Quotes)
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master (Ben Jonson Quotes)
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth (Ben Jonson Quotes)
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back (Ben Jonson Quotes)
I am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honor and reputation (Ben Jonson Quotes)
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 (Ben Jonson Quotes)
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth (Ben Jonson Quotes)
Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not (Ben Jonson Quotes)