He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSONRich 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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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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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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