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 JONSONA good king is a public servant.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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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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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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