If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSONIf 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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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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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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