Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSONNor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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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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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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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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