Ben Jonson Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• You are not now to think what's best to do,
  As in beginnings, but what must be done,
  Being thus enter'd; and slip no advantage
  That may secure you. Let them call it mischief;
  When it is past, and prosper'd , 'twill be virtue.

  Ben Jonson

  Past, Virtue, Mischief

  "Complete Works of Ben Jonson".

• I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

  Ben Jonson

  Inspirational, Education, Past

  "Volpone and The Alchemist".

• Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

  Ben Jonson

  Winning, Past, Years

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3211, Delphi Classics

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