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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

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Ben Jonson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1572
Born: June 21
Died: 1637
Died: August 6
Actor
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
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City of Westminster
Benjamin Jonson
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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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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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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One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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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 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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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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