Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSONHow near to good is what is fair!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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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.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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I 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.
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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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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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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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