A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSONGood men but see death, the wicked taste it.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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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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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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