Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSONHonor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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