And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSONThey, who know no evil, will suspect none.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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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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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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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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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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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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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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