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.
BEN JONSONMoney never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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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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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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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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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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