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.
BEN JONSONVice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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