Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSONWhosoever 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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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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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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