True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSONHow ready is heaven to those that pray!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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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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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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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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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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