Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSONOur whole life is like a play.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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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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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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