That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSONWere Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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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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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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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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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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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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