Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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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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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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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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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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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