For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSONBlueness doth express trueness.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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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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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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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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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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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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