More from Ben 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 Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson All concord’s born of contraries.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
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Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
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John Henry NewmanJohn Henry Newman There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
Paul the ApostlePaul the Apostle There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Paul the ApostlePaul the Apostle It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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