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Ben Jonson Inspirational Quotes (126)

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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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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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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray And so do I.
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I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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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.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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It 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.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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