Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
BEN JONSONOf all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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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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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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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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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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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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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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