Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSONYou learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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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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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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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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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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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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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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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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