Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSONTo men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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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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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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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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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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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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