Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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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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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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