True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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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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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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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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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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