I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSONOut of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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