What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSONWhom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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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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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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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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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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