Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSONIt strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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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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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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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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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