The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSONNor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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How near to good is what is fair!
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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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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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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.
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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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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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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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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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