A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSONO, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
-
-
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSON -
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON -
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON -
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
BEN JONSON -
For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON -
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON -
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
BEN JONSON -
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON -
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
BEN JONSON -
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON -
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSON -
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON -
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON -
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON -
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON