How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSONNow we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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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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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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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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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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