Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSONWe are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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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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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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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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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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