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?
BEN JONSONQueen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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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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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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