Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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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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Your highest female grace is silence.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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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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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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