I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSONAmbition, 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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