Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSONPassions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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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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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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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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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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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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