He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSONSuccess hath made me wanton.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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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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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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