Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSONIt holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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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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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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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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Success hath made me wanton.
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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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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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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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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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