Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSONThe Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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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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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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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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