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 JONSONTo struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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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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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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