Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSONReader look, not on his picture but his book.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Success hath made me wanton.
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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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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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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?
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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