The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSONNow we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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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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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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