You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
BEN JONSONWere Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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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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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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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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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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