Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSONLet those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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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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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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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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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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