A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSONGod wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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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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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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