A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSONThe covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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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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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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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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