They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSONChance 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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