A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSONStill to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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