Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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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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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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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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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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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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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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