Prevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSONTell troth and shame the devil.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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A good life is a main argument.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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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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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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