Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSONWere Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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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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Blueness doth express trueness.
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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.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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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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