To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSONI perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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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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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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