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 JONSONLanguage most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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A good life is a main argument.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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