Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
BEN JONSONTis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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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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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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