Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
BEN JONSONNor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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