Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSONMemory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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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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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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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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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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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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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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