He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSONBlueness doth express trueness.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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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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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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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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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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Blueness doth express trueness.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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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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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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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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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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