Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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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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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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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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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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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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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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