Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSONLanguage 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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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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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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Success hath made me wanton.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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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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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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