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.
BEN JONSONAmbition, 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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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 virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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