Quote #9

Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.

More from Ben Jonson

  1. 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…
  2. Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd, Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though…
  3. Calumnies are answered best with silence.
  4. Thou look'st like Antichrist in that lewd hat.
  5. Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.
  6. Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander makes it true.
  7. That old bald cheater, Time.
  8. The dignity of truth is lost With much protesting.

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