The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSONWhere it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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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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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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