Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSONOpinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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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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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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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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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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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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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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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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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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