Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSONYour highest female grace is silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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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.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Language 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.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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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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Success hath made me wanton.
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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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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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