A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSONDrink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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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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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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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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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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