The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSONI would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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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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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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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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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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