All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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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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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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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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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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