Ben Jonson Quotes - Page 7

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• A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

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  Loss, Men, Good Man

  Ben Jonson, Johanna Procter (1989). “The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 1: Sejanus, Volpone, Epicoene Or the Silent Woman”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• How near to good is what is fair!

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  Goodness, Fairs

  "Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly". Musical by Ben Jonson, 1611.

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• Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

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  Talking, Disease, Posse

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.744, Douglas Editions

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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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  Men, Journey, Good Man

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3199, Delphi Classics

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• How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

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  Sports, Fortune, Practise

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1894). “Ben Jonson”

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• Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?

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  Lying, Doors, Judging

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.145, Manchester University Press

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• Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.

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  Mean, Remembrance, World

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.140

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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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  Morning, Regret, Simple

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1859). “The works of Ben Jonson”, p.674

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• Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

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  Prayer, Wicked Person, Affliction

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3176, Delphi Classics

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• Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

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  Courage, Suffering, Valor

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.537

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• Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

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  Guilt, Shame, Guilty

  "Volpone; or, The fox. Catiline his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair. Sejanus his fall".

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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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  Sweet, Brother, Money

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

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• Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

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  Names, Luck

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.80, Delphi Classics

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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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  Men, Done, Benefits

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3194, Delphi Classics

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• Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .

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  Use, Swelling, Ill

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• I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.

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  Prayer, Grief, Wish

  Ben Jonson, William (Schriftsteller) Gifford (1816). “The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Masques, &c. Epigrams. Underwoods”, p.289

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• Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts, And both do aim at human hearts. And then again, I have been told Love wounds with heat, as Death with cold; So that I fear they do but bring Extremes to touch, and mean one thing. As in a ruin we it call One thing to be blown up, or fall; Or to our end like way may have By a flash of lightning, or a wave; So Love’s inflamèd shaft or brand May kill as soon as Death’s cold hand; Except Love’s fires the virtue have To fight the frost out of the grave.

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  Fall, Heart, Mean

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The magnetic lady: or, humours reconciled. A tale of a tub. The sad shepherd: or, a tale of Robin Hood. The case is altered. Entertainments, &c”, p.266

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• To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

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  Change, Men, Want

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• I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

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  Foolish, Eloquence, Affected

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Underwoods, translations, &c. Discoveries. English grammar. Jonsonus viribus”, p.164

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• The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.

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  Devil, Ass, Acknowledge

  Ben Jonson, Peter Happe (1996). “The Devil Is An Ass”, p.183, Manchester University Press

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• In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

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  Life, Summer, June

  'To the Immortal Memory...of...Sir Lucius Carey and Sir H. Morison' (1640)

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• Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

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  Mind, Crowns, Virtue

  The Underwood,'An Ode to Himself' (published 1640).

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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.

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  Noble, Done, Wrong Person

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Underwoods, translations, &c. Discoveries. English grammar. Jonsonus viribus”, p.157

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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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  Hypocrisy, Dear, Estimation

  Ben Jonson (1752). “Every Man in His Humour: A Comedy. Written by Ben Jonson. With Alterations and Additions. As it is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane”, p.18

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• Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.

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  Age, Example, Youth

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.251, Manchester University Press

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