How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSONThe day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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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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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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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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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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