Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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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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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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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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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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