Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON
BEN JONSON
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Very 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 JonsonBen Jonson It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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