The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSONGood men but see death, the wicked taste it.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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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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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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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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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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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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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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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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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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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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