Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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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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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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