Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
BEN JONSONIt is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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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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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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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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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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