Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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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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Prevent your day at morning.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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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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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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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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