I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSONI am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSONWhom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSONMan and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONI have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
BEN JONSONConfound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSONAffliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSONI do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSONWe are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSONFortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSONNo man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSONThe 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.
BEN JONSONIn small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSONA good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSONAll concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSONFor whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSONAs 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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