I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSONFortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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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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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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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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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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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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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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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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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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