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Ben Jonson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1572
Born: June 21
Died: 1637
Died: August 6
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Literary Critic
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Poet
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City of Westminster
Benjamin Jonson
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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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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Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
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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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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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