Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSONNow we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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That old bald cheater, 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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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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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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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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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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