Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSONMischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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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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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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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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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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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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