Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSONStill to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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How near to good is what is fair!
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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