Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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