Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
BEN JONSONWho casts to write a living line, must sweat.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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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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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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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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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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