black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

Ben Jonson

Prevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSON

Day Morning Prevent
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON

Bald Cheater Old Time
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.
BEN JONSON

Ancient Heaven Silent
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON

Good Greatness Once
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.
BEN JONSON

Exercise Men Writing
Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSON

Hath Made Success Wanton
He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON

Crime Injured Threaten
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
BEN JONSON

Book Faithful May
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSON

Passion Spiritual Understanding
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
BEN JONSON

Men Truth Use
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
BEN JONSON

Men Salt Way
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ben Jonson Quotes