A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSONPrevent your day at morning.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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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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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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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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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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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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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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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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