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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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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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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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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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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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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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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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