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.
BEN JONSONWoman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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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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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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