Prevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSONGood men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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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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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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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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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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