Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
BEN JONSONSpread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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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.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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