Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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