Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSONThe poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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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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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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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
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Our whole life is like a play.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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