Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
BEN JONSONWho casts to write a living line, must sweat.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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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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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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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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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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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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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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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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