He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSONI 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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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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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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