Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSONLet argument bear no unmusical sound.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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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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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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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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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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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 glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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