To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSONAnd where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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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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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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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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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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A good life is a main argument.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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