Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSONNo man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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