Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSONWine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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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.
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