If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
BEN JONSONIndeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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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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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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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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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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