Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSONAll concord’s born of contraries.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Our whole life is like a play.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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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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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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A good king is a public servant.
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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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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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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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