In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSONTrue gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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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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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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