Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSONWere Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSONI have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
BEN JONSONOds me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
BEN JONSONI do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSONThe two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
BEN JONSONLet those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSONForbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
BEN JONSONIndeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSONIn small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSONPrevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSONAll discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSONI’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSONTo men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSONWhom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSONWine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSONThe man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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