Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSONYour highest female grace is silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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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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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Success hath made me wanton.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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