Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSONForce works on servile natures, not the free.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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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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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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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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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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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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