True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSONPrevent your day at morning.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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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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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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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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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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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.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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