And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSONArt hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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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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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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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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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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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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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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