Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSONMany punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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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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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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