Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSONGet money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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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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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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