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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
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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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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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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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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If all you boast of your great art be true Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
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The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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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Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused the understanding is not.
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Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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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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