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 JONSONPopular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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