A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSONAll discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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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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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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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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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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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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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