That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
BEN JONSONDrink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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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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That old bald cheater, Time.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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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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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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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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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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