Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSONCourt a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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If 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.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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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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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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