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Own Quotes by Ben Jonson
- He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
- 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…
- All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
- 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…
- Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
- 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…
- 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…
- If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
- 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…
- He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
- I have betrayed myself with my own tongue; The case is altered
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