Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSONPassions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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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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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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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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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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