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.
BEN JONSONYour highest female grace is silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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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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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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