If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
BEN JONSONWhen a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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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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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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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.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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