It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
BEN JONSONHe that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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A good king is a public servant.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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