O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSONI have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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