That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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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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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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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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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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