In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSONAs 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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