Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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