We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSONFortune, that favors fools.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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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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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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