Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSONIt 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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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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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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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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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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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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