He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSONYou are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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