The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSONIt 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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