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Ben Jonson Quotes
Best Quotes by Ben Jonson (Top 10)
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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.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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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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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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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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More Ben Jonson Quotes
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an I live, i'faith.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
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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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Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.
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Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .
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