All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSONIt 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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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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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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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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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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