Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSONAmbition, 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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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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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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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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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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