A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSONHow ready is heaven to those that pray!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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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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