Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSONThat old bald cheater, Time.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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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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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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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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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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