Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSONTo men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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