Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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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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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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