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.
BEN JONSONMy thoughts and I were of another world.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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A good life is a main argument.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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