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.
BEN JONSONNo 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.
BEN JONSONFreedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSONFear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
BEN JONSONTrue melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSONRich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
BEN JONSONThe Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSONO! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSONIn the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSONI 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.
BEN JONSONA good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSONYou 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 JONSONA good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSONNo glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSONArt hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSONIt is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
BEN JONSONI have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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