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.
BEN JONSONGet money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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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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Success hath made me wanton.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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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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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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A good life is a main argument.
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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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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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