A 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.
BEN JONSONThey, who know no evil, will suspect none.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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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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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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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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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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