To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSONI now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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For 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.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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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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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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