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
BEN JONSONMoney never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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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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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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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.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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