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 JONSONHe that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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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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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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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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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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