I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSONAmbition, like a torrent, never looks back.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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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 virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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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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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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