The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSONThe Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSONHe that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSONHe who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSONI am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSONIt 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 JONSONMan and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONA good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSONGreat honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSONA 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.
BEN JONSONSuccess hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSONNothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSONThe man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSONA good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSONPeace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSONWhom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSONIt is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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