A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSONFor he that once is good, is ever great.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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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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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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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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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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