Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
BEN JONSONHow ready is heaven to those that pray!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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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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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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