He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSONChance 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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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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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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