Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSONOpinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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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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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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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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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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