Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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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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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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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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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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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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