Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSONA new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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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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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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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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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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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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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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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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