Ben Jonson quotes - page 2

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 Jonson)
Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never! View quote
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The Devil is an Ass, I do acknowledge it. View quote
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. View quote
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing. View quote
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A good life is a main argument. View quote
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He was not of an age, but for all time! View quote
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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. View quote
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need. View quote
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The burnt child dreads the fire. View quote
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Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. (Ben Jonson)
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. View quote
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature. View quote
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Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first. View quote
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That for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice- almighty gold. View quote
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both. View quote
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike. View quote
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There shall be no love lost. View quote
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It must be done like lightning. View quote
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast. View quote
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If you be sick, your own thoughts will make you sick. (Ben Jonson)
Lady: How do's it fit? wilt come together? Prudence: Hardly. Lad: Thou must make shift with it. Pride feels no Pain. View quote
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The ports of death are sins; of life, good deeds: Through which our merit leads us to our meeds. How willful blind is he then, that would stray, And hath it in his powers, to make his way! This world death's region is, the other life's: And here, it should be one of our first strifes, So to front death, as men might judge us past it. For good men but see death, the wicked taste it. View quote
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage! View quote
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Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse,- Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another, Learn'd and fair and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee. View quote
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