Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
BEN JONSONIndeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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A good king is a public servant.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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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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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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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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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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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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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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