There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSONIt is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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