[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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