The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSONHow ready is heaven to those that pray!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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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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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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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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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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