Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSONHell itself must yield to industry.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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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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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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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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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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