Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSONWhom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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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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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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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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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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