If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSONA good poet’s made as well as born.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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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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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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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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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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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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