Ben Jonson

I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.
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I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.
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Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he read more

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

A countenance inconceivably forbidding.

A countenance inconceivably forbidding.

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.

Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.