Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
BEN JONSONYour highest female grace is silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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