The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSONNor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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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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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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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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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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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.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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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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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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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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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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