Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSONStill 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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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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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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