Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSONFortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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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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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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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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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Men 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.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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