Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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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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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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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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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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