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| He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity | Ben Jonson | 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet |
| Blueness doth express trueness. | Ben Jonson | 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet |
| All concord's born of contraries. | Ben Jonson | 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet |
| He threatens many that hath injured one. | Ben Jonson | 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet |
| They that know no evil will suspect none. | Ben Jonson | 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet |
| True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. | Ben Jonson | 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet |
| When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. | Ben Jonson | 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet |
| 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. | Ben Jonson | 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet |
| If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick | Ben Jonson | 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet |
| 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end. | Ben Jonson | 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet |
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| We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen. | Ben Jonson | 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet |
| To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. | Ben Jonson | 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet |
| 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. | Ben Jonson | 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet |
| O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! | Ben Jonson | 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet |
