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.
BEN JONSON
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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How near to good is what is fair!
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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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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All concord’s born of contraries.
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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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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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