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 JONSONIt is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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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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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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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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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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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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A good king is a public servant.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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