Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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