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 JONSONWhom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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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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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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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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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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