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 JONSONThat old bald cheater, Time.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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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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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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Your highest female grace is silence.
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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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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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