In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSONO, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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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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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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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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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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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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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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