Ben Jonson on winning
Ben Jonson198 quotes“Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.”
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
Ben JonsonBen Jonson A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Prevent your day at morning.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Man and wife make one fool.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Calumnies are answered best with silence.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson A good life is a main argument.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson 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.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson
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Betty CuthbertBetty Cuthbert Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless.
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Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin Netanyahu Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.
Bernard BrodieBernard Brodie We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a put-down if we don’t win the silver or gold.
Betty OkinoBetty Okino Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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