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May Quotes by Ben Jonson
- To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
- For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
- No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by…
- A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect…
- 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…
- I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
- Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
- In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
- Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts, And both do…
- Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good…
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- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
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