Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
BEN JONSONFear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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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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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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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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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Follow 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?
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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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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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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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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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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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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