True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSONPrevent your day at morning.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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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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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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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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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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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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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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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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