Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSONConfound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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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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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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