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 JONSONFor whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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