A 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 JONSONTrue gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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