Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSONTrue gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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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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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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