That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSONA good king is a public servant.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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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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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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