To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSONTo speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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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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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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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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