Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
BEN JONSONA good poet’s made as well as born.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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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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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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