O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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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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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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