Ben Johnson
English playwright and poet
Lived from: 1572-1637
Category: Poets (Contemporary) | Writers (Contemporary)
Quotes: Ben Johnson
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Ben Johnson
+1Talking is the disease of age.
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Ben Johnson
0A good poet's made as well as born.
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0Art has an enemy called ignorance.
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0Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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0Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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0Don't tell me I cheated the system because that's. I didn't get treated fairly by the system. They cast me out and they were jealous because I turned in the fastest time ever run by a human and it was impossible at the time.
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0Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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0Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touched it? Have you marked but the fall o' the snow Before the soil hath smutched it?... O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she!
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0I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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0Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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0No 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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0The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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0There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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0Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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William Shakespeare
Harold Pinter
John Osborne
