We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSONWeigh the meaning and look not at the words.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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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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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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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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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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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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A good life is a main argument.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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