How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSONCalumnies are answered best with silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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A good king is a public servant.
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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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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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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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