O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSONI have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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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.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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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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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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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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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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