If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSONAmbition, like a torrent, never looks back.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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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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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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A good life is a main argument.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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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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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.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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