Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSONNor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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