Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSONWell, 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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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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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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