True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSONConfound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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To 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!
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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