In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSONA good life is a main argument.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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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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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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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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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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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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A good king is a public servant.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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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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