The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSONStill may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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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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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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