Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSONIn small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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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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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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