The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSONWoman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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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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Success hath made me wanton.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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