Rich 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.
BEN JONSONGreatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good life is a main argument.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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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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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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