Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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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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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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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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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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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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