Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSONChance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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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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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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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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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