A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSONNothing is more short-lived than pride.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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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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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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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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Your highest female grace is silence.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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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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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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