Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSONYour highest female grace is silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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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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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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