Our whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSONYour highest female grace is silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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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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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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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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A good life is a main argument.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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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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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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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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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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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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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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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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