Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSONLanguage most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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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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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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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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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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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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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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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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