Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSONThe man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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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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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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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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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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