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Ben Jonson Inspirational Quotes (124)

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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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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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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow Best, while you have it, use your breath There is no drinking after death.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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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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To the old, long life and treasure To the young, all health and pleasure.
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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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Heaven prepares good men with crosses but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.
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Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
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Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!
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The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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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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