Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSONNow we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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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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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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