Ben Jonson on broken
Ben Jonson198 quotes“I 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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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
Ben JonsonBen Jonson A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson 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.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson 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 JonsonBen Jonson Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Prevent your day at morning.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Man and wife make one fool.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Calumnies are answered best with silence.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson A good life is a main argument.
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I hold a trembling fire in my heart, to burn the ghosts of broken regrets.
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K. MckeeK. Mckee I am not broken, neither hurt. I am just disappointed.
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