How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSONThe Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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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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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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