Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
BEN JONSONNor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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