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Ben Jonson [1572-1637] English
Rank: 101
Poet (with poems), Playwright

Blank verse, Elizabethan, Enlightenment, Laureate, Renaissance


Benjamin "Ben" Jonson was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic of the 17th century, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours.

Art, Fear, Good, Happiness, Strength, Success



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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear. Fear
101
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity. Strength
102
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
103
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. Happiness
104
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. Art
105
Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
106
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
107
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
108
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
109
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times. Good
110
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
111
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. Success
112
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.
113
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
114
Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
115
I do honour the very flea of his dog.
116
They that know no evil will suspect none.
117
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
118
Talking is the disease of age.
119
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
120
This is the very womb and bed of enormity.
121
He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
122
He threatens many that hath injured one.
123
And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.
124
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
125
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
126
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
201
Fortune, that favors fools.
202
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
203
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
204
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
205
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
206

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