Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSONGood men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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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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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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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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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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