The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSONFor he that once is good, is ever great.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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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.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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