All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSONThe man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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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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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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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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