Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSONWho falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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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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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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