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.
BEN JONSONAnd where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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