Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSONDrink 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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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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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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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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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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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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