Blueness doth express trueness.
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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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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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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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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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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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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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