Ben Jonson

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise
man speaks.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise
man speaks.

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship.
The reason is, the brave beast is read more

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship.
The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a
Prince as soon as his groom.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

For a good poet's made, as well as born,
And such wast thou! Look how the father's face
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For a good poet's made, as well as born,
And such wast thou! Look how the father's face
Lives in his issue; even so the race
Of Shakespeare's mind and manner brightly shine
In his well-turned and true-filed lines;
In each of which he seems to shake a lance,
As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.