Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSONThere is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Forbear, 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.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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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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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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