Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
BEN JONSONIt is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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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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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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