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 JONSONI do honor the very flea of his dog.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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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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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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