Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSONPrevent your day at morning.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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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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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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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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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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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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