The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSONCourt a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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