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 JONSONOut of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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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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Success hath made me wanton.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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