Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSONGod wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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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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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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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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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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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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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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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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