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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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Ben Jonson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1572
Born: June 21
Died: 1637
Died: August 6
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City of Westminster
Benjamin Jonson
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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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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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 perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant and of all tame a flatterer.
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Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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All discourses but my own afflict me they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.
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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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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
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