Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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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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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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