A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSONThey, who know no evil, will suspect none.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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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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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Prevent your day at morning.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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