They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSONMoney 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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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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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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