A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSONThe world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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