The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSONHonor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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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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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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A good life is a main argument.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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