Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSONLanguage most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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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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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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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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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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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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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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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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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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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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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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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.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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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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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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