Our whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSONPrinces that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Prevent your day at morning.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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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.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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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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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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