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.
BEN JONSONLove that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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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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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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