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.
BEN JONSONWho falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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