What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSONHang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Success hath made me wanton.
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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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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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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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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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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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Prevent your day at morning.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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