Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSONThat old bald cheater, Time.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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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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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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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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