How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSONA good life is a main argument.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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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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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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