Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSONTruth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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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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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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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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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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