How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSONFor he that once is good, is ever great.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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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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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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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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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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