Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSONMischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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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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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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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