Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSONSuccess hath made me wanton.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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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.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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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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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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