Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSONI would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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How near to good is what is fair!
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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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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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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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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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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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Success hath made me wanton.
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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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Prevent your day at morning.
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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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