The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSONThe way to rise is to obey and please.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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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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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.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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