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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
Form
Men
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Likeness
Glass
Glasses
Speech
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Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state, But the sinister application Of the malicious, ignorant, and base Interpreter who will distort and strain The general scope and purpose of an author To his particular and private spleen.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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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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One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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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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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.
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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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Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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