The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSONFor a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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