Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSONVice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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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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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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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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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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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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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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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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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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