Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSONMany punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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How near to good is what is fair!
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I 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.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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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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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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