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 JONSONPeace is never more than one thought away.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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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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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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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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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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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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