That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSONMy thoughts and I were of another world.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good king is a public servant.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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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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How near to good is what is fair!
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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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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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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