True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSONHe that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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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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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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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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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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