That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSONIf men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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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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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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