Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSONIt is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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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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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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