Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSONTrue melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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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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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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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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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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