Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSONFollow 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?
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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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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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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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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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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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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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Success hath made me wanton.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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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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Man and wife make one fool.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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