That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
BEN JONSONThe 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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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 poet’s made as well as born.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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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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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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