For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
BEN JONSONRich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Man and wife make one fool.
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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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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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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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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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