Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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