I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSONI do honor the very flea of his dog.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Our whole life is like a play.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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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.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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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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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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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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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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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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