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.
BEN JONSONA new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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