He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSONForbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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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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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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