O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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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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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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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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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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