The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
BEN JONSONI 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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