Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
BEN JONSONI 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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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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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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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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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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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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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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