Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSONA 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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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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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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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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A good life is a main argument.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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