Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSONO, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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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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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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