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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

Ben Jonson

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
BEN JONSON

Food Romantic Wine
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 JONSON

Home Joy
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
BEN JONSON

Black Brain House
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSON

Evil Knows Suspect
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSON

Acknowledge Ass Devil
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON

Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON

Education Inspirational Past
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON

Age Delight Soul Wonder
It 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 JONSON

Ancestry Honor Noble
My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSON

Another World Thoughts
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks
Peace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSON

Away Harmony More Peace
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh

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