Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSONWere Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Prevent your day at morning.
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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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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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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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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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