Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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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Prevent your day at morning.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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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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A good king is a public servant.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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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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There 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?
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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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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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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