Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSONHang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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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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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Drink 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.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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