Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSONLanguage most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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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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Success hath made me wanton.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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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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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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 two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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