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.
BEN JONSONThe day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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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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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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