The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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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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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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