Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSONIt strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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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 man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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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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Prevent your day at morning.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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