Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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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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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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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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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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