Quote #4

Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess, excellently bright.

More from Ben Jonson

  1. True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice.
  2. That old bald cheater, Time.
  3. Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears: Yet, slower, yet; O faintly, gentle springs: List to the heavy part the music bears,…
  4. Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.
  5. Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
  6. Calumnies are answered best with silence.
  7. You that would last long, list to my song, Make no more coil, but buy of this oil. Would you be ever fair and young? Stout of teeth and str…
  8. Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.

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