Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
BEN JONSONFolly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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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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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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