The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSONThere is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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I 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.
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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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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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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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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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