Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSONLet argument bear no unmusical sound.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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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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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.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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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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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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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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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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