He was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSONWeigh the meaning and look not at the words.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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