Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSONGod wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Your highest female grace is 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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A good life is a main argument.
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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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Prevent your day at morning.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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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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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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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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