Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
BEN JONSONArt hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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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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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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