Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSONSoul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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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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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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