All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSONFortune, that favors fools.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Chance 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.
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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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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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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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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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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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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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