Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSONDrink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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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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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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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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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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