Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
BEN JONSONIt strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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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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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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