The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSONVice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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