Ben Johnson

English playwright and poet

Lived from: 1572-1637

Category: Poets (Contemporary) | Writers (Contemporary)

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  Talking is the disease of age.

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  A good poet's made as well as born.

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  Art has an enemy called ignorance.

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  Calumnies are answered best with silence.

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  Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

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  Force works on servile natures, not the free.

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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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  Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

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  No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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  The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

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  There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

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  Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

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