In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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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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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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The 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.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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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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