For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSONDrink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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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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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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