And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSONWoman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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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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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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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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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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