Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSONCut Men’s throats with whisperings.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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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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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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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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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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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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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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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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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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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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