Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONAll discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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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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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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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.
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Still 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.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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