There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSONThe poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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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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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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