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.
BEN JONSONPrinces 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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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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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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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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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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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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