Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSONWeigh the meaning and look not at the words.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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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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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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