He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSONThe Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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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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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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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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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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