A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSONWho casts to write a living line, must sweat.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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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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That old bald cheater, Time.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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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.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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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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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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