The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSONCalumnies are answered best with silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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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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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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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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A good life is a main argument.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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