Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSONReader look, not on his picture but his book.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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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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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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