Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSONI’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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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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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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