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.
BEN JONSONHang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Prevent your day at morning.
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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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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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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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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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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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Fortune, that favors fools.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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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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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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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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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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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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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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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