The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSONLove that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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