In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSONI see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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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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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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