O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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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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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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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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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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