Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSONSilence in woman is like speech in man.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Rich 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.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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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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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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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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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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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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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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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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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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Blueness doth express trueness.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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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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