Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSONReader look, not on his picture but his book.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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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 that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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