That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSONWhom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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I 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.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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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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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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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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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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