To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSONCut Men’s throats with whisperings.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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 is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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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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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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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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Man and wife make one fool.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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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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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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