Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
BEN JONSONMen that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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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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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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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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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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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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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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