Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSONPrinces 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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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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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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