Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSONA good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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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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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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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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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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