Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSONMy thoughts and I were of another world.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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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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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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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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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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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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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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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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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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