Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSONWho casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSONA 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 JONSONOne woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSONA prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSONIt is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSONOf all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSONPassions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSONI do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSONFor whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSONYour highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSONAll concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSONFortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSONLove that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSONHang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSONWhere dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
BEN JONSONA 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