Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSONTruth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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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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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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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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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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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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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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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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