Prevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSONMan and wife make one fool.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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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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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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