Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONA good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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