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.
BEN JONSONNor 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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A good king is a public servant.
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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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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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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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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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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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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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