Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSONNor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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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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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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