How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSONThe 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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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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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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