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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson 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.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson A good dog deserves a good bone.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Your highest female grace is silence.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson How near to good is what is fair!
Ben JonsonBen Jonson And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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