Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSONMan and wife make one fool.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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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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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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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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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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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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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.
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