Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSONI feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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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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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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