Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSONMen that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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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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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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