Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSONIndeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSONStill 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 JONSONReader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSONI see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSONFortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSONIf men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
BEN JONSONI would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
BEN JONSONHe was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSONThere is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSONWere Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSONThey, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSONSweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSONTrue melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSONIt strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
BEN JONSONBlueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSONForce works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSON