Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSONNo man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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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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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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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.
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