What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSONCut Men’s throats with whisperings.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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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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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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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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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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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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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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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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