Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSONSuccess hath made me wanton.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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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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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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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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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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A good king is a public servant.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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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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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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