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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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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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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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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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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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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