A Quote by Ben Jonson

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

Ben Jonson

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Deity Fortune Had Men Thou Wisdom

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Ben Jonson
English - Poet
June 11, 1572 - August 6, 1637

Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.

William Shakespeare

The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence.

Robert Dodsley

Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the same time, however, take care that thou dost not, through being so pleased with them, accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them.

Marcus Aurelius

If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.

Thomas a Kempis

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villainy! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight But where her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety.

William Shakespeare

Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

William Shakespeare

In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.

Francis Quarles

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

William Shakespeare

If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.

Thomas a Kempis

Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!

Charles Lamb

Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.

William Watson

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

Ben Jonson

But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!

William Shakespeare

Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.