The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSONFolly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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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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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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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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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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