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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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!
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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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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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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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All discourses but my own afflict me they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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To the old, long life and treasure To the young, all health and pleasure.
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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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Success hath made me wanton.
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Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.
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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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