Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
BEN JONSONA 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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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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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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