Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSONBlueness doth express trueness.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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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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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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