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 JONSONGreat honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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A 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.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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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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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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