
“Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”
Of Adversity
Essays (1625)
CXXIV, Epitaph on Elizabeth, Lady H—, lines 3-6
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams
“Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”
Of Adversity
Essays (1625)
“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”
Arcades (1630-1634), line 68
Source: The Complete Poetry
Stornelli Politici, ""Costanza"".
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 354.
“He is dead already who doth not feel
Life is worth living still.”
Source: Is Life Worth Living? http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/9/3/1/19316/19316.htm (1896)
“Fair is his end who loving well doth die.”
Act I, scene II. — (Lidio).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 254.
La Calandria (c. 1507)
“Not only around our infancy
Doth heaven with all its splendors lie”
Prelude to Pt. I, st. 2
The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)
Context: Not only around our infancy
Doth heaven with all its splendors lie;
Daily, with souls that cringe and plot,
We Sinais climb and know it not.
XXIII, An Ode, to Himself, lines 1-6
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Underwoods