Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSONHow near to good is what is fair!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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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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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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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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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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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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