There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSONA valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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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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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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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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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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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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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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