Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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A 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.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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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Prevent your day at morning.
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