Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson A good poet’s made as well as born.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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