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.
BEN JONSONFollow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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How near to good is what is fair!
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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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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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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