The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSONHow Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Well, 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.
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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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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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