Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSONFor whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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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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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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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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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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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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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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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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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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