Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSONPrinces 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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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.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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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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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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