The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSONYou learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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