Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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