As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
BEN JONSONBooks are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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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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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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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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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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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