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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

Ben Jonson
Art, Fighting, Winning

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ben Jonson
Inspirational, Art, Fool

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

Ben Jonson
Art, Men, Monsters
Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.387

Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

Ben Jonson
Sweet, Art, Eye
Epicene act 1, sc. 1 (1609)

Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

Ben Jonson
Art, Lying, Sleep
Ben Jonson (1985). “Ben Jonson”, Oxford University Press, USA

Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men's perfections in a science he formed still one Art.

Ben Jonson
Art, Men, Judging
Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.763

Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.

Ben Jonson
Sweet, Art, Causes
'Epicoene' (1609) act 1, sc. 1

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

Ben Jonson
Art, Lying, Giving
Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3178, Delphi Classics

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

Ben Jonson
Art, Ignorance, Enemy
Ben Jonson (1756). “Every man in his humour. Every man out of his humour. Cynthia's revels; or, the fountain of self-love”, p.149

Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .

Ben Jonson
Art, Lying, Book
Ben Jonson (1985). “Ben Jonson”, Oxford University Press, USA

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

Ben Jonson
Art, Poverty, Being True
Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.665

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

Ben Jonson
Art, Style, Matter
Ben Jonson (1756). “Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered”, p.133

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