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.
BEN JONSONWho casts to write a living line, must sweat.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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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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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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