Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSONSweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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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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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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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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