Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSONA new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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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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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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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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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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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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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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