Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONYour highest female grace is silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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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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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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A good king is a public servant.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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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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