Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSONWere Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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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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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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