… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSONSuccess hath made me wanton.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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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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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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A good king is a public servant.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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