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Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

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Ben Jonson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1572
Born: June 21
Died: 1637
Died: August 6
Actor
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
City of Westminster
Benjamin Jonson
Indeed
Luck
Names

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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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Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us but they know it not.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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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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Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!
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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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No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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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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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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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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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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Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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