Our whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSONReady writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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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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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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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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