Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSONIf 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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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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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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