To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSONFor they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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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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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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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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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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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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