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.
BEN JONSONNow we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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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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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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