I am beholden to calumny, ...

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.
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.
 Ben Jonson

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.
 Ben Jonson
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
 Ben Jonson
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
 Ben Jonson