It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSONWho falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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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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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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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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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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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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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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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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A good life is a main argument.
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