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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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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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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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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I 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.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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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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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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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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