Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONFor 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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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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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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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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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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