Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
BEN JONSONAll concord’s born of contraries.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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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.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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