We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSONI do honor the very flea of his dog.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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