A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSONCalumnies are answered best with silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good king is a public servant.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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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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If 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.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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