One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSONGet money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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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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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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