Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
BEN JONSONWhere dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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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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Money 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.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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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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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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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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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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