The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
BEN JONSONTrue melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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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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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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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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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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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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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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