Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSONMan and wife make one fool.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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