The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSONPrevent your day at morning.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to 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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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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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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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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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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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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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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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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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