Our whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSONThe burnt child dreads the fire.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Our whole life is like a play.
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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.
BEN JONSONThat 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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How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSONHow near to good is what is fair!
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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSONGod wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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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.
BEN JONSONMany 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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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSONIt is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSONHe that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSONWe are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSONHell itself must yield to industry.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSONYour highest female grace is silence.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSONOpinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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