Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSONSweet meat must have sour sauce.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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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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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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