Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSONThat old bald cheater, Time.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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