Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSONI glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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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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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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