Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSONThe burnt child dreads the fire.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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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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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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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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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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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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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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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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