The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSONHow ready is heaven to those that pray!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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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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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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