Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
BEN JONSONWhere dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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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.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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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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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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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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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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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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