A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSONBooks are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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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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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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