Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
BEN JONSONIndeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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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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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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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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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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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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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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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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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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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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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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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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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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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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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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