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 JONSONTruth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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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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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Success hath made me wanton.
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