All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSONIn the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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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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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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A good king is a public servant.
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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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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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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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How near to good is what is fair!
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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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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