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.
BEN JONSONTrue gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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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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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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