The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSONLet argument bear no unmusical sound.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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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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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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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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A good life is a main argument.
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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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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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