Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSONAmbition makes more trusty slaves than need
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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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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Prevent your day at morning.
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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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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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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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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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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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