Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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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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Success hath made me wanton.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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