Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSONWhere dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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A good king is a public servant.
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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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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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