Quotes by Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

Conceited

Plain English

Play

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A good dog deserves a good bone.

Bones

Canine

Dog

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A good life is a main argument.

Argument

Good Life

Inspirational Life

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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

Good Man

Loss

Men

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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.

Black

Brain

House

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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

Eye

Government

Letters

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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

Gratitude

Men

Needs

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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.

Men

Salt

Way

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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

Affliction

Prayer

Wicked Person

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All concord’s born of contraries.

Born

Contradiction

Contrary

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