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No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Ben Jonson

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Ben Jonson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1572
Born: June 21
Died: 1637
Died: August 6
Actor
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Playwright
Poet
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City of Westminster
Benjamin Jonson
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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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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!
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The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest Would thou could'st make the time to do so too I'll wind thee up no more.
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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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Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .
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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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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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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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