I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSONFear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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