Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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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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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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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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Success hath made me wanton.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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