A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSONYou are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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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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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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