Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSONTo speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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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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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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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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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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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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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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