Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSONThe way to rise is to obey and please.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
-
-
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON -
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
BEN JONSON -
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.
BEN JONSON -
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON -
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSON -
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSON -
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.
BEN JONSON -
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON -
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSON -
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON -
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSON -
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
BEN JONSON -
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON -
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON -
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON