Quotes by Jonson, Ben

"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity"

Jonson, Ben on adversity
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"They that know no evil will suspect none."

Jonson, Ben on evil   

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."

Jonson, Ben on happiness
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"When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity."

Jonson, Ben on honor   

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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."

Jonson, Ben on horses   

"If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick"

Jonson, Ben on illness   

"'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end."

Jonson, Ben on music   

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"We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen."

Jonson, Ben on socializing and socialism   

"To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."

Jonson, Ben on speakers and speaking   

"A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect."

Jonson, Ben on suspicion   

"O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!"

Jonson, Ben on time   

"Blueness doth express trueness."

Jonson, Ben on color   

"All concord's born of contraries."

Jonson, Ben on contradiction   

"He threatens many that hath injured one."

Jonson, Ben on crime and criminals