Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSONNothing is more short-lived than pride.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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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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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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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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