Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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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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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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How near to good is what is fair!
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Where 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.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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