Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSONHe was not of an age, but for all time!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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A good king is a public servant.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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