To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSONIt is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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A good life is a main argument.
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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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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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