Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSONOpinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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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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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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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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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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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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