The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSONAmbition, like a torrent, never looks back.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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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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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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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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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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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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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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