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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
Benjamin Jonson
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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To the old, long life and treasure To the young, all health and pleasure.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray And so do I.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses but no ill can happen to a good man.
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The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul lest it be thought the breath Of discontent or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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