Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSONSweet meat must have sour sauce.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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