O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSONA good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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