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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.

Ben Jonson

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSON

Passion Spiritual Understanding
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
BEN JONSON

Affected Eloquence Foolish
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSON

Evil Hate Men Oppress
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Easily May Men Taught Wise
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
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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Morning Regret Simple
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSON

Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.

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