The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSONHeaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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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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Blueness doth express trueness.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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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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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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