black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

Ben Jonson

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON

Father Men Parent
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON

Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON

Age Delight Soul Wonder
It 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 JONSON

Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSON

Courses Reputation Sells
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
BEN JONSON

Blind Love Slight Thinking
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Vulgar
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
BEN JONSON

Courage Suffering Valor
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
BEN JONSON

Example Law Men Patteren People
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSON

Horse Plies Wine
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 JONSON

Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSON

Art Men Monsters

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ben Jonson Quotes