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.
BEN JONSONNow we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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For 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.
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