In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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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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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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