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.
BEN JONSONRich 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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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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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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