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Ben Jonson Inspirational Quotes (126)

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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 do honor the very flea of his dog.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant and of all tame a flatterer.
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If all you boast of your great art be true Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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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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Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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