My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSONNor 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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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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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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