Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSONNor 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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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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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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