The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSONAll concord’s born of contraries.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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