In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSONFortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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A good king is a public servant.
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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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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 threatens many that hath injured one.
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