You 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.
BEN JONSONHonor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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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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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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