Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSONHonor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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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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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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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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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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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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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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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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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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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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