The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSONThe burnt child dreads the fire.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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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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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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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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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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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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A good king is a public servant.
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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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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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