The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSONMan and wife make one fool.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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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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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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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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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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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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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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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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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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