There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSONIt holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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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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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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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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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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