Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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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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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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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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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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