Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
BEN JONSONHe that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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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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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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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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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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