O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSONA good dog deserves a good bone.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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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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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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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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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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