The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSONWell, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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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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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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