To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSONThere 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?
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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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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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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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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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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