Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSONNor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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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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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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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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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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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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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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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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