I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSONOds 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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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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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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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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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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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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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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