A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSONAll the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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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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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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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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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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