Prevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSONPrevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSONCares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSONFor he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSONWell, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
BEN JONSONI feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
BEN JONSONAmbition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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.
BEN JONSONWho falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSONMen that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
BEN JONSONOf all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSONWords borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSONWho 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?
BEN JONSONI have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSONOds 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.
BEN JONSONIt is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
BEN JONSONHe threatens many that hath injured one.
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