The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSONThe covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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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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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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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.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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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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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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A good king is a public servant.
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