Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSONStill 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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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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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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