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 JONSONIf men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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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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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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