My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSONTrue gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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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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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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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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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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