The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSONFortune, that favors fools.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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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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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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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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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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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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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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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Your highest female grace is silence.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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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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