Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSONBooks are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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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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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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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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