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 JONSONI 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 JONSONSoul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSONBlueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSONTis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
BEN JONSONMy thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSONVery few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
BEN JONSONAffliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSONNor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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 JONSONTis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSONA good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSONThere is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSONWhen a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
BEN JONSONMinds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSONWhom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSONA good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSON