In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSONMan and wife make one fool.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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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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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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A good king is a public servant.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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