He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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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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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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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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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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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