A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSONMinds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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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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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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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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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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