A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSONThe covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I 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.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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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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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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