Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSONI remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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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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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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