Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSONWine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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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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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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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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That old bald cheater, Time.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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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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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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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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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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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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