Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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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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A good king is a public servant.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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