No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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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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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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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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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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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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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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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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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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