A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSONGod wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Where 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.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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