O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSONThe Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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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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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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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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