Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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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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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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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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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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