Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSONNor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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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.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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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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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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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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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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