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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
Ben Jonson
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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
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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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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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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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.
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No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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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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Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused the understanding is not.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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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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