Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSONSweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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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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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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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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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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