Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSONSuccess hath made me wanton.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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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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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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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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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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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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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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