Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
BEN JONSONNow we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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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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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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Our whole life is like a play.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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