Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSONGreat honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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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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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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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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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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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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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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A good king is a public servant.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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