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Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

Ben Jonson
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Ben Jonson's Popular Quotes

That old bald cheater, Time.

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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .

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Guilt's a terrible thing.

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