Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSONWe are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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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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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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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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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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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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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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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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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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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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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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