A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSONSpread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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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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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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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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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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