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.
BEN JONSONA thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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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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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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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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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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