Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSONHonor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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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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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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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.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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