To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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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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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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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 burnt child dreads the fire.
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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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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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