Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONGuilt’s a terrible thing.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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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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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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