Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSONA good life is a main argument.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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