Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSONWho 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?
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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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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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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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.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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