How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSONFor 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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