Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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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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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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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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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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A good life is a main argument.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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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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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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