It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSONChance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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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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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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