Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSONFor they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Forbear, 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.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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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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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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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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