Nor 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.
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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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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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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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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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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