Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSONHang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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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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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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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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