A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSONSuccess produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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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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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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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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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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