To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSONHe that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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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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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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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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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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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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