Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
BEN JONSONI 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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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.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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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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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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