A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSONHe that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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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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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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