A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSONPeace is never more than one thought away.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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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.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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A good life is a main argument.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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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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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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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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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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