Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSONHe who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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A good life is a main argument.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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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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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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