Bears Quote by Ben Jonson Download Open image “Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.” — Ben Jonson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bears Burden Casts Envy Honor Honour Jealousy Load Two
Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon… — Thucydides Copy Share
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Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see to it that you do not hold malice or enmity toward any one; to do so cuts you off from the mind whose treasures you seek to make your own. Lay aside all narrow personal ambition… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
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