And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSONWhere 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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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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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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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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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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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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