Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSONA thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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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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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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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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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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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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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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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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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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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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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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