For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
BEN JONSONFortune, that favors fools.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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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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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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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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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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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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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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