How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSONThe man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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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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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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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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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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