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.
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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All concord’s born of contraries.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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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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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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