A good life is a main argument.
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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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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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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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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