Ben Jonson Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.

  Ben Jonson

  Ignorance, Science, Men

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.65, Manchester University Press

• Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

  Ben Jonson

  Soul, Age, Delight

  'To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare' (1623)

• The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Soul, Infinite

  Ben Jonson (1875). “The works of Ben Jonson, with notes, and a biogr. memoir, by W. Gifford. With intr. and appendices by F. Cunningham”, p.42

• Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Book

  Ben Jonson (1985). “Ben Jonson”, Oxford University Press, USA

• 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

  Ambition, Self, Law

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir”, p.258

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