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

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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
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men's perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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To the old, long life and treasure To the young, all health and pleasure.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray And so do I.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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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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Heaven prepares good men with crosses but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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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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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray prosperity never.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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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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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!
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