Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSONMy thoughts and I were of another world.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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A good life is a main argument.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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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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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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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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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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