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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
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City of Westminster
Benjamin Jonson
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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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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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
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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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Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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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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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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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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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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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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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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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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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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