How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSONThy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good king is a public servant.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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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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Blueness doth express trueness.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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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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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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