I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSONOur whole life is like a play.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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It 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.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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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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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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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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