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 JONSONCourt a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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A good life is a main argument.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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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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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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