Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSONGet money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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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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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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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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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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A good life is a main argument.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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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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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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